Archive for June 17th, 2013

by Anthony Wile LewRockwell.com June 17, 2013 Daily Bell: Thanks for sitting down with us again, Richard. What is going on with gold and silver? The markets seem to be diverging between paper and physical. Richard Ebeling: In the long run, gold and silver remain the historically important hedges against inflation and government confiscation... »

SilverDoctors.com JUNE 17, 2013 It’s been rumored that the Russians have been purchasing the majority of their domestic gold production. Well, according to this Mining Company’s 2012 Annual Report, the Russian Federation was the majority buyer of its domestic gold and silver production. The Rest…HERE Share on Facebook »

AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BusinessInsider.com JUN. 16, 2013 China’s shadow banking system is out of control and under mounting stress as borrowers struggle to roll over short-term debts, Fitch Ratings has warned. The agency said the scale of credit was so extreme that the country would find it very hard to grow its... »

Investmentwatchblog.com June 17th, 2013 The Indian economy is facing further trouble. There is a financial crunch in the global markets. This will dry up the foreign investments in the country. Rising interest rates in United States has triggered the crisis. Investors are selling-off in the Asian stock markets. They have already withdrawn heavily from... »

By: Michael S Rozeff Market Oracle Jun 17, 2013 “Governments, like married couples, are entitled to their secrets” has written Richard Cohen a few years back. Which secrets? Lines have to be drawn. A government shouldn’t cover up crimes under the mantle of secrecy. It shouldn’t conceal wrongful seizures and exercises of power. This... »

BATR.com Signals collection has a long secretive and enigmatic history. The very definition of espionage implies spying, most closely associated with foreign sources. Since the Echelon network, the unified function of data retrieval became a given during the cold war. With the revelation of Prism, advances in sophisticated electronic devices and software algorithms provide... »

by Mike Masnick TechDirt.com Mon, Jun 17th 2013 Over the weekend, the Washington Post published yet another revelation about the NSA’s surveillance capabilities, including some details of various “code named” data collection projects like MAINWAY, MARINA and NUCLEON. NUCLEON is the program for intercepting telephone calls (the actual content), though that’s apparently limited. MAINWAY... »

JOE WEISENTHAL BusinessInsider.com JUN. 17, 2013 A new CNN poll provides the sharpest evidence yet that a month of scandals (IRS, Benghazi, AP, leaks, etc.) is taking its toll on President Obama’s approval rating. A full breakdown of the poll can be downloaded here (.pdf) but the key datapoints are as follows: General job... »

Investmentwatchblog.com June 17th, 2013 U.S. Is Going To Be ‘A Lot Worse’ Than Greece Dark days are ahead for U.S. investors. That’s according to a well-respected author and investor, making a recent appearance on Yahoo Finance’s “Breakout.” Peter Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, says that the during President Obama’s second term, the... »

By Michael TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com June 16th, 2013 Eventually the money runs out. Much of America was shocked when the city of Detroit defaulted on a $39.7 million debt payment and announced that it was suspending payments on $2.5 billion of unsecured debt, but those who visit my site on a regular basis were probably not... »